The Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Sale or Supply) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1980 and shall come into operation on 30th January 1981.

(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—

“the Act” means the Medicines Act 1968;

“controlled drug” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971;

“effervescent”, in relation to a tablet, means containing not less than 75 per cent, by weight of the tablet, of ingredients included wholly or mainly for the purpose of releasing carbon dioxide when the tablet is dissolved or dispersed in water;

“health prescription” means a prescription issued by a doctor or dentist under or by virtue of—

(i)

in England and Wales, either the National Health Service Act 1946 and the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 or the National Health Service Act 1977,

(ii)

in Scotland, the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, and

(iii)

in Northern Ireland, the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;

“parenteral administration” means administration by breach of the skin or mucous membrane;

“pharmacy medicine” means a medicinal product which is not a prescription only medicine and which either—

(i)

is not a medicinal product on a general sale list, or

(ii)

is a product referred to in regulation 8 and is not presented for sale in the manner described in relation to that product in that regulation;

“prescription only medicine” means a medicinal product of a description or falling within a class specified in Article 3 of the Prescription Only Order;

“the Prescription Only Order” means the Medicines (Prescription Only) Order 1980;

“register” means a bound book and does not include any form of loose leaf register or card index;

“registered ophthalmic optician” means a person who is registered in either of the registers of ophthalmic opticians established and maintained under section 2(a) of the Opticians Act 1958;

“repeatable prescription” means a prescription which contains a direction that it may be dispensed more than once; and

“the Veterinary Drugs Exemption Order” means the Medicines (Exemptions from Restrictions on the Retail Sale or Supply of Veterinary Drugs) Order 1979(1);

(b) a reference to selling anything by way of wholesale dealing is to selling it to a person as being a person who buys it for one or more of the purposes specified in section 131(2), except that in sub-paragraph (b) of regulation 5(1) it does not include any such sale by the person who manufactured it, and a reference to supplying anything by way of wholesale dealing is to supplying it to a person as being a person who receives it for one or more of those purposes; and

(c) a reference to a numbered section is to the section of the Act which bears that number, a reference to a numbered regulation or Schedule is to the regulation in or Schedule to these regulations which bears that number and a reference in a regulation or Schedule to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph which bears that number in that regulation or Schedule.

(1)

Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1980/283, 1650.